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SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, giving Cursor access to SpaceX’s vast GPU fleet to develop and train cheaper AI models. The deal follows SpaceX’s merger with xAI into SpaceXAI, and the teams have already released Grok 4.5 and 4.6 focused on coding and real-world tasks.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, claiming GPT-5.6 Sol–level intelligence and Claude Fable 5 parity, with improvements for long-running tasks, coding, and knowledge work; it cites a longer training run, stronger engineering data, expanded reinforcement learning, pricing from $2 per million tokens, and availability via Cursor, Grok Build, and API, plus benchmark gains across CursorBench, FrontierCode, APEX-Agents, and Terminal-Bench.
Elon Musk says SpaceX's AI revenue will surpass all other SpaceX revenue, likely by September, as Grok is trained on the full breadth of SpaceX data and the company pursues space-based data centers using Nvidia's Vera Rubin hardware; in Q2 AI generated $2.56B of SpaceX's $7.81B total revenue (connected services $4.29B, space products $962M), and Musk envisions AI becoming SpaceX's core business as SpaceX rebrands to SpaceXAI and expands its AI initiatives.
SpaceXAI and Cursor unveiled Grok Bot, an AI teammate app for iPhone and Mac that signs into your tools, completes work end-to-end, and remembers conversations to improve with use. The beta is live on Mac and iOS, with Windows and Linux versions available and Android coming soon; initial access is limited to select premium subscribers (SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium).
SpaceXAI will begin removing 69 unpermitted gas turbines powering its Memphis-area data center, replacing them with a new 1.2GW plant in Mississippi; removal starts August 2026 and is slated to finish by July 2027 under a Clean Air Act permit, amid an NAACP lawsuit alleging pollution; SpaceXAI says air quality currently meets EPA standards, while the DOJ seeks dismissal of the case.
SpaceXAI, the SpaceX AI division formerly known as xAI, has sued Minnesota AG to block HF 1606, a law that bans nudification tech—AI that turns clothed images into nude ones—on real people without consent. The suit argues the measure is overly broad, ignores user intent, and could impose enormous penalties that chill legitimate AI use even with safeguards. It also challenges the law’s definition of nudity and cites potential overreach with AI-generated examples; Governor Walz publicly criticized the move on social media.
Super Micro Computer said it has more than $60 billion in new orders in its fiscal Q4 and now expects gross margins of 15-17% due to a favorable product mix, driven by surging demand for Nvidia-powered AI servers and SpaceX/SpaceXAI ties; it projects June-quarter revenue at the low end of guidance ($11.0-$12.5 billion) with a record backlog, and an earnings call is set for Aug. 11 as rivals Dell and HPE rose on the update.
Two years after SpaceXAI’s Colossus I and II arrived in Greater Memphis, residents report disruptive noise and emissions from gas turbines, rising utility costs, and unmet promises, fueling lawsuits and a wave of policy countermeasures from New York, New Jersey, and Utah. The backlash has become a blueprint for communities elsewhere while SpaceX faces NAACP legal challenges and ongoing scrutiny over environmental permits and community consultation.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet and its first since going public and acquiring Cursor, pitched as a coding/automation tool for business use. Trained with Cursor, Grok 4.5 is claimed to outperform some rivals on engineering and knowledge tasks while being faster and cheaper, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. It’s available in Grok Build, Cursor on all plans, and SpaceXAI’s console (not yet in the EU). While it trails the largest OpenAI/Anthropic models in peak performance, SpaceXAI positions Grok as a cost-effective enterprise option and notes potential revenue from compute capacity leasing.
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model, Grok 4.5, as soon as Wednesday after delaying the rollout to improve efficiency; the model is designed for rapid information processing and aims to rival Anthropic’s Opus 4.8.
The Wall Street Journal reports SpaceX is developing a slim AI hardware prototype thinner than an iPhone, but Elon Musk has denied the claim as utterly false; the piece notes SpaceX’s growing AI portfolio (SpaceXAI from xAI and Cursor) and a rumored device said to run a proprietary OS on a Qualcomm Snapdragon, though it may not reach market.
SpaceX announced it will acquire Cursor’s parent company Anysphere for $60 billion, a move aimed at boosting SpaceXAI by giving developers access to a popular AI-coding platform and additional compute capacity. The deal complements SpaceX’s broader plan to vertically integrate its AI efforts—from compute and energy infrastructure at the bottom to the SpaceXAI model layer in the middle and Cursor as a fast-growing top app—in hopes of closing the gap with frontier players like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. While Cursor could help accelerate adoption and tooling, SpaceX still faces the challenge of developing high-powered AI models to compete with the best in the field.
Anthropic will use SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, gaining access to about 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and more than 300 MW of capacity to run Claude Pro and Claude Max, as SpaceXAI pursues IPO-scale growth and orbital-compute ambitions amid ongoing cloud bottlenecks and local emissions concerns.
SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers, for large-scale training, fine-tuning, and inference to support Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers, with plans to explore orbital AI compute capacity as a next-step scale.